Word: leveled
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Brezhnev in Moscow. The conference lasted two hours and 40 minutes, more than an hour longer than scheduled. It marked the first time since July 1979, when Brezhnev met with Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, that the Soviet leader has talked in person and at length with a high-level U.S. official. From all appearances, it was a major effort by the Kremlin to launch an early dialogue with the incoming Reagan Administration...
...returned from successive visits to the two warring capitals with an agreement in principle for freeing 63 merchant ships trapped in the Shatt al Arab waterway. Said he: "The first ray of hope." In Washington, a high State Department official was less sanguine: "It's a bloody low-level conflict, a bit like the trench warfare of World War I. It could...
...bitterly cold day in February 1975, the Communist Party chiefs in Haicheng, a city in northeastern China, convened in emergency session. They had just learned from seismologists that various signs, including changes in the water level of wells, pointed to an imminent earthquake. Convinced the threat was real, they issued an order to evacuate all homes and hospitals, close down shops and factories and turn off gas mains and furnaces...
...Italy last week, and in Algeria last October. Only a year and a half after the Haicheng temblor, an 8.2 quake near Tangshan, 90 miles southeast of Peking, caught seismologists by surprise and killed as many as 650,000. Says Polish-born Volcanologist Haroun Tazieff: "At the present level of research, nature almost always surprises...
...noses above water academically and pass the physical, it's virtually guaranteed that we can put them on full scholarship." Nationally, 10% of the Army's ROTC cadets receive full scholarships for up to four years. All the services pay for attendance at advanced summer camps; upper-level ROTC members also earn up to $1,000 annually for their campus training. Scholarship students are required to serve after college for a minimum of four years, while other commissioned ROTC graduates owe up to three full-time years to the military...